Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to catch a thief during a department store sale

A parent lulls a child to sleep with visions of soft spring breezes, lazy summer days, cool autumn winds, and moon-lit winter nights

When Cam, her friend Eric, and her father stop for pizza while they are at the mall, Cam must rely on her photographic memory to locate her missing jacket

Traces the life of the nineteenth-century English woman who followed her calling to work in hospitals and improve the conditions under which the sick were treated.

Young Detective Jeffrey Bones begins gathering clues when Mr. Green asks for his help finding the school bus he lost while shopping at the mall

Cam Jansen, with Eric at her side, helps solve the mystery of what happened to Mr. Day's tennis trophy

On Field Day, Mo swims a lot faster than he knew he could, not because his team might win but because a fish keeps nibbling his toe.

Kids use simple machines every day without realizing it. Teeth are wedges and so are knives, forks, and thumbtacks. Many toys such as slides, which are inclined planes, and seesaws, which are levers, are also simple machines. Two appealing kids and their comical cat introduce levers, wheels, pulleys, inclined planes, and more, and explain how they work. This lively introduction to physics will get kids excited about how simple machines simplify our...

"Two children learn about four different states of matter (solid, liquid, gas, and plasma) and what happens when matter changes form."--

This concise chronicle of the famous explorer's life centers on his boyhood in Genoa, Italy, his dreams of voyaging west and his final voyages.